The Progres Of The Soule (John Donne Poems)
Wherein,BY OCCASION OFThe Religious death of MistrisE L I Z A B E T H D R V R Y,the incommodities ...
Poems about beheaded (21 Poems)
Men (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Man is a creature of a thousand whims;The slave of hope and fear and circumstance.Through toil and martyrdom a million ...
Kings And Queens Of England (Mary Ann H T Bigelow Poems)
FROM THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS OR THE NORMAN CONQUEST, TO THE PRESENT REIGN,INCLUSIVE.First, William the Norman lays claim to the ...
Funeral Music (Geoffrey Hill Poems)
William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk: beheaded 1450John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester: beheaded 1470Anthony Woodville, Earl Rivers: beheaded 14831Processionals ...
How The Helpmate Of Blue-Beard Made Free With A Door (Guy Wetmore Carryl Poems)
A maiden from the Bosphorus,With eyes as bright as phosphorus,Once wed the wealthy bailiffOf the caliphOf Kelat.Though diligent and zealous, ...
My Lady Of Whims (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
(A medieval Spanish legend slanderously setting forth the utter unreason of woman.)ROMAQUIA sat and wept herLace mantilla full of tears.King ...
Overseas (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Non numero horas nisi serenasWhen Fall drowns morns in mist, it seemsIn soul I am a part of it;A portion ...
Broadcaster’s Poem (Alden Nowlan Poems)
I used to broadcast at nightalone in a radio stationbut I was never good at itpartly because my voice wasn't ...
About The State of Struggling (Nichita Stanescu Poems)
As though the superior knifehad cut my clouds from the mountain topsdoes my immense and headless body hurl itself about,leaving ...
My Tongue (Patience Worth Poems)
Mine is a cunning implement!There is nothing which mayDeny me wielding it,Yet I have an o'ercoming awe at the thought,That ...
The Dance To Death. Act III (Emma Lazarus Poems)
ACT III. A cell in the Wartburg Monastery. Enter PRIOR PEPPERCORN with the casket.PRIOR.So! Glittering shell where doubtless shines concealedAn ...
The Pleasaunce. (Fidelia S T Hill Poems)
Fair Estelle.* * * * *Tho' all neglected now, the time hath beenWhen yon wide pleasaunce was the loveliest scene;When ...
I Make This In A Warring Absence (Dylan Thomas Poems)
I make this in a warring absence whenEach ancient, stone-necked minute of love's seasonHarbours my anchored tongue, slips the quaystone,When, ...
Broadcaster’ (Alden Nowlan Poems)
I used to broadcast at nightalone in a radio stationbut I was never good at itpartly because my voice wasn't ...
The Merry Window (Francis Scarfe Poems)
The alabaster legs of the lonely womanhang from the window like white ensignsout of the laughing window like false teethsheets, ...
In Memoriam Paul Celan (Edward Hirsch Poem)
Lay these words into the dead man's grave next to the almonds and black cherries--- tiny skulls and flowering blood-drops, ...
Strange Fruit (Seamus Heaney Poem)
Here is the girl's head like an exhumed gourd. Oval-faced, prune-skinned, prune-stones for teeth. They unswaddled the wet fern of ...
To Flower (Michael Burch Poem)
When Pentheus went into the mountains in the garb of the baccae, his mother and the other maenads, ...
The Twelve Dancing Princesses (Anne Sexton Poems)
If you danced from midnight to six A.M. who would understand? The runaway boy who chucks it all to live ...
Perseus (Sylvia Plath Poems)
The Triumph of Wit Over Suffering Head alone shows you in the prodigious act Of digesting what centuries alone digest: ...
Delhi – A Re-visitation (John Matthew Poems)
It's akin to visiting my foster mother, today, That I am returning to you, mother city, after twenty years, I ...